Is it just me, or did Mike Meyers get the most sketches up there were based on his family/youth? This one about this father, Wayne's World was based on either his youth or a friend while Garther was inspired Dana's brother, Lorthar was based on Mike's DnD campaigns, and Coffee Talk was inspired by his mother-in-law.
No, Mike Myers funneled his youth/family influence into almost all his sketches.
The fact thats always boggled my mind is that Myers and Jim Carrey have never worked together, considering they are from same areaish of Toronto, same age, broke out same time, ect.
I dont think they even know each other.
Apparently Mike Myers was rather difficult off set, and Jim Carry clearly is quite off his rocker.
Carrey seemed to fully transition to LA-American but Myers still lives in Trono
People often ask what’s a hill you’ll die on. Well here’s mine.
Whilst many very funny comedians, and characters have come from SNL, SNL itself is not funny in the slightest.
That's an insane take. If you can't find at least some sketches funny then you're just not a person who finds things funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0
If that's not funny to you then just accept you don't understand humor.
People who have been on it and got their break on it have gone on to do funny things.
But no sketches I’ve ever seen from the show itself have been the slightest bit funny
I mean it's not shown in any other country unlike many many sitcoms. 40 years and nobody not in America actually wants to watch it. That tells you it *is* funny does it?
"50 seasons of *Saturday Night Live* featuring 164 cast members with a number of guests several times that and yet **none** of them have ever been funny!"
Wow, what a take.
Anyhow, here's Operaman on Eddie Vedder
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4n0JVaLqw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4n0JVaLqw)
My friends and I would use this as code when going to garage sales when we didn't want to offend those hosting it. If one of us thought we should go, they'd say "See anything Scottish?"
If the answer was "no," it was time to find a new one.
For your future text-based Scottish accent impressions, generally Scottish people would say 'my' more like 'ma', sometimes written 'mah'. 'Me' is more like how an Irish person sounds.
Honestly I rarely watch it for this reason alone. I actually like a lot of the jokes, but some part of my brain is just taken right out of the sketch by the way they stare at the cards. Even the cast members, who should have a better handle on it imo.
Yeah but when they look, it does kind of ring true about how the placement of the people can make a difference since you clearly see Kyle move his head to the cue cards unlike now where they have them face the cue cards.
They did another version of this on another episode that goes a different way:
https://vimeo.com/611368124
(They actually did this sketch 4 times in total)
And I won't spoil the ending, but once you've seen it: - There's a reporter on the local news radio station named Kris McCusker, and the way she says her name on her signoffs "I'm Kris McCusker" is always timed in a precise way that perfectly mirrors "He's Phil McCracken..." in the theme song. It's still crystal clear in my head 30 years later.
Came across this exact same sketch but with Christopher Walken instead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CR68NDgGg
It was for dress rehearsal and you can see why it didn't work, but it has almost all the same jokes although with less energy...and Christopher Walken's attempt at a Scottish accent.
My dad was Scottish and as a teen, I remember watching this sketch with him when it aired and we laughed and laughed. Great stuff. No one was really exploring 'being Scottish' as a vein of humour before and there are so many Scots living abroad. It was an untapped resource.
Mike Meyers being Canadian helps. I remember when I was in Scotland our tour bus driver saying there were more people of Scottish descent living in Canada than there were in Scotland. Not sure if true, but either way, it's a lot.
I wrote a whole post with sources but Reddit ate it. So here's the abridged version: there's about 36M people in Canada, about 12% of which declared themselves of Scottish origins, for around 4.3M ethnic Scots in Canada. Meanwhile, about 77% of people living in Scotland identify as ethnic Scots, for around 4.2M people. So actually true apparently.
> there were more people of Scottish descent living in Canada than there were in Scotland
I mean that is easily true in the USA as well. A quick google says about 25 million Americans are descended from Scottish who immigrated there.
He's not, he's just doing the thing where people make fun of Americans for claiming their ethnic ancestry. Doesn't really work when we are talking about Scottish people talking about how many people of Scottish descent there are in other countries though.
I know there are more Scots living abroad than there are in Scotland. I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I don't know about specifically Canada but given the influx of Irish and Scottish immigration to the east coast of Canada back in the day, I'm prepared to believe it.
> I know there are more Scots living abroad than there are in Scotland. I'm pretty sure that's a fact.
I very much doubt "that's a fact", given that the Scots who migrated to Canada "back in the day" are no longer Scots, but Canadians. Same for USA, Australia, etc.
I mean, we're getting into semantics now, I guess. Apparently Scots are the third-largest 'ethnic group' in Canada as they were among the first Europeans to settle here. The number of people claiming Scottish ancestry is just about five million people. Fifteen percent of all of Canada. Then there's five million in the US, fifteen percent of Australia's non-aboriginal population, a bunch in New Zealand, other parts of the UK, France Poland, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, some in Africa and Latin America. So that's WAAAAY more than are currently in Scotland. For sure. But like you said, if they're five generations deep then I reckon they're just Canadian, Aussies, Kiwis, etc. I know the dreary weather in the UK compels large numbers of folks, retirees especially, to run off to sunny Spain or what have you. But I lived in the UK for five years and folks would OFTEN bandy about the 'fact' that there are more Scots living abroad than are living in Scotland. I have a feeling that's one of those myths that is true in some ways but not in others. Depends on how you're looking at it, I guess.
Yeah it's "of descent" which is a different thing. Diasporic communities are a grey area because how much or little a person engages with the diaspora is up to them, and they usually sort of become a third thing if they're a tight knit group.
Man, I can’t detect any cue card reading here like almost at all. I can’t remember an SNL skit within the last 5 - 10 years (other than their pre-shot skits of course) where the cast and guests weren’t clearly reading cue-card the entire sketch. I wonder why that is
i am the opposite i hear this sketch and the other 3 like it(and like a weekend update thing??) when ever i hear Fat Bastard or Shrek. this episode has another great Mike Myers moment when he does a Sprockets bit with "Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos". the winning video is a guy getting hit in the nuts so hard he pukes.
that episode was a classic. interestingly enough, that was the ep with sinead o'connor and the pope photo ripping incident. kyle is amazing in SPROCKETS. al franken's mobile remote from baghdad is hilarious. and BAD IDEA jeans is great too! RIP phil hartman.
This episode aired [in 1990](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694565/). Sinéad ripped up the photo of the Pope [in 1992](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-ripped-up-the-popes-photo-on-tv-snl).
I wish Mike would make a new, hilarious movie, but it seems like all the great ones that used to be funny lose their ability over time (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, etc.).
Seems like some move onto different paths in their career too. Could be for any reason, but maybe they don’t find comedy as rewarding anymore or they do films with half the effort and double the pay check. I mean, I don’t blame a lot of comedians who go the latter route. They scraped and crawled to get where they are at through comedy and deserve to cash in.
IIRC, this was on the season premiere 1990. Sinead O'Connor did "Last Day of Our Acquaintance" as her 2nd song and absolutely killed it. Best SNL musical performance I've ever seen.
He got to workshop his dad character some more before So I Married an Axe Murderer.
\[ bagpipes ... \] "If you want my body, and you think I'm sexy..." \[ bagpipes continue \]
PIPER DOWN!
We’ve got a piper down!
What are *you* doing here?
lol they let me out of the cage for offseason
Is it just me, or did Mike Meyers get the most sketches up there were based on his family/youth? This one about this father, Wayne's World was based on either his youth or a friend while Garther was inspired Dana's brother, Lorthar was based on Mike's DnD campaigns, and Coffee Talk was inspired by his mother-in-law.
TIL that Mike played DnD. Austin Powers was straight up inspired by the movies that Mike's dad shared with him.
Very specifically James Bond
James Bond, In Like Flint, the old Michael Caine thrillers like Pulp, The Tenth Victim for sure (if you've not seen it, you gotta see it!)...
No, Mike Myers funneled his youth/family influence into almost all his sketches. The fact thats always boggled my mind is that Myers and Jim Carrey have never worked together, considering they are from same areaish of Toronto, same age, broke out same time, ect. I dont think they even know each other.
Apparently Mike Myers was rather difficult off set, and Jim Carry clearly is quite off his rocker. Carrey seemed to fully transition to LA-American but Myers still lives in Trono
Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
You Scots sure are a contentious people.
You just made an enemy for life!
Don't touch Willie. Hmm, good advice.
Well, wearing a kilt in a land of thistles is liable to make one a bit angry.
Willie hears ya, Willie don’t care
They’re not true Scotsmen.
"It's like all of Scottish cuisine's based on a dare!" Kyle MacLachlan hit that line perfectly.
That line made it into So I Married an Axe Murderer.
Woman... Woe-man... Whoooa-man! - She was a thief You gotta belief She stole my heart and my cat.
Betty Judy Josie and those hot pussycats
Sat-uh-day-morny
They made me horny.
HEED!
PEEPER!
# NAO
Well that was offside, wasn’t it? He’ll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow.
his comedic acting is severly underrated. Shoutout to his performance in Twin Peaks: the Return
People often ask what’s a hill you’ll die on. Well here’s mine. Whilst many very funny comedians, and characters have come from SNL, SNL itself is not funny in the slightest.
To quote Keenan Thompson, "Hey look, it's 100 floors of frights, they're not all gonna be winners!"
"Tonight's show is going to be! ..... adequate"
That's an insane take. If you can't find at least some sketches funny then you're just not a person who finds things funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HD2xG92-0 If that's not funny to you then just accept you don't understand humor.
How the fuck did he keep a straight face through that, jesus christ lol. I lost my shit when he stabbed the bird
I’m not American. SNL humour doesn’t travel well I’m afraid.
So, it has funny comedians doing funny characters, but it's not funny?
People who have been on it and got their break on it have gone on to do funny things. But no sketches I’ve ever seen from the show itself have been the slightest bit funny
A comedy show that has been on for 40 years isn’t funny. What a take.
I mean it's not shown in any other country unlike many many sitcoms. 40 years and nobody not in America actually wants to watch it. That tells you it *is* funny does it?
"50 seasons of *Saturday Night Live* featuring 164 cast members with a number of guests several times that and yet **none** of them have ever been funny!" Wow, what a take. Anyhow, here's Operaman on Eddie Vedder [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4n0JVaLqw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4n0JVaLqw)
Maybe you're the problem.
My friends and I would use this as code when going to garage sales when we didn't want to offend those hosting it. If one of us thought we should go, they'd say "See anything Scottish?" If the answer was "no," it was time to find a new one.
You're lucky you didn't land at the hoose where the owner says "aye lads, this decorative plate set is from me grandad's estate in Aberdeen"
For your future text-based Scottish accent impressions, generally Scottish people would say 'my' more like 'ma', sometimes written 'mah'. 'Me' is more like how an Irish person sounds.
‘Me’ is more like how Kyle McLachlan sounds in this skit
This Shrek is weird.
I was gonna say this Fat Bastard is weird lol
Notice how they rarely look at the cue cards.
Mike Meyers probably wrote this one well in advance and was just waiting for a chance to use it.
It's insane how reliant they are on the cue cards these days.
Honestly I rarely watch it for this reason alone. I actually like a lot of the jokes, but some part of my brain is just taken right out of the sketch by the way they stare at the cards. Even the cast members, who should have a better handle on it imo.
And the acting! Watch Jan hooks react and laugh. She was such a great comedic actor
Yeah but when they look, it does kind of ring true about how the placement of the people can make a difference since you clearly see Kyle move his head to the cue cards unlike now where they have them face the cue cards.
The only person who gets a pass from me for looking at cue cards is Christopher Walken. Somehow it makes him even more funny.
I always liked the one with Kiefer Sutherland. "He drinks like a fish! He's always piss-steamin' drunk! He's gonna ruin my kidney!"
They were all great. Loved the Patrick Stewart one.
They did another version of this on another episode that goes a different way: https://vimeo.com/611368124 (They actually did this sketch 4 times in total) And I won't spoil the ending, but once you've seen it: - There's a reporter on the local news radio station named Kris McCusker, and the way she says her name on her signoffs "I'm Kris McCusker" is always timed in a precise way that perfectly mirrors "He's Phil McCracken..." in the theme song. It's still crystal clear in my head 30 years later.
best doctor
Came across this exact same sketch but with Christopher Walken instead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CR68NDgGg It was for dress rehearsal and you can see why it didn't work, but it has almost all the same jokes although with less energy...and Christopher Walken's attempt at a Scottish accent.
One comment: "Walken sounded like a drunk Scotsman trying to do a Christopher Walken impersonation." lmao this is accurate.
They cut that dead bit chatting to Hillary, and added the fisticuffs bits. And learning the lines helped too.
My dad was Scottish and as a teen, I remember watching this sketch with him when it aired and we laughed and laughed. Great stuff. No one was really exploring 'being Scottish' as a vein of humour before and there are so many Scots living abroad. It was an untapped resource.
Mike Meyers being Canadian helps. I remember when I was in Scotland our tour bus driver saying there were more people of Scottish descent living in Canada than there were in Scotland. Not sure if true, but either way, it's a lot.
I wrote a whole post with sources but Reddit ate it. So here's the abridged version: there's about 36M people in Canada, about 12% of which declared themselves of Scottish origins, for around 4.3M ethnic Scots in Canada. Meanwhile, about 77% of people living in Scotland identify as ethnic Scots, for around 4.2M people. So actually true apparently.
41 million in Canada now.. growing too fast.
> there were more people of Scottish descent living in Canada than there were in Scotland I mean that is easily true in the USA as well. A quick google says about 25 million Americans are descended from Scottish who immigrated there.
But are they really declared Scots or their great grandparents came from Scotland so they are Scottish?
You think there are 5+ million actual scots living in Canada? Lmao, wut?
I think he's making a no true Scotsman joke.
He's not, he's just doing the thing where people make fun of Americans for claiming their ethnic ancestry. Doesn't really work when we are talking about Scottish people talking about how many people of Scottish descent there are in other countries though.
I know there are more Scots living abroad than there are in Scotland. I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I don't know about specifically Canada but given the influx of Irish and Scottish immigration to the east coast of Canada back in the day, I'm prepared to believe it.
> I know there are more Scots living abroad than there are in Scotland. I'm pretty sure that's a fact. I very much doubt "that's a fact", given that the Scots who migrated to Canada "back in the day" are no longer Scots, but Canadians. Same for USA, Australia, etc.
I mean, we're getting into semantics now, I guess. Apparently Scots are the third-largest 'ethnic group' in Canada as they were among the first Europeans to settle here. The number of people claiming Scottish ancestry is just about five million people. Fifteen percent of all of Canada. Then there's five million in the US, fifteen percent of Australia's non-aboriginal population, a bunch in New Zealand, other parts of the UK, France Poland, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, some in Africa and Latin America. So that's WAAAAY more than are currently in Scotland. For sure. But like you said, if they're five generations deep then I reckon they're just Canadian, Aussies, Kiwis, etc. I know the dreary weather in the UK compels large numbers of folks, retirees especially, to run off to sunny Spain or what have you. But I lived in the UK for five years and folks would OFTEN bandy about the 'fact' that there are more Scots living abroad than are living in Scotland. I have a feeling that's one of those myths that is true in some ways but not in others. Depends on how you're looking at it, I guess.
Yeah it's "of descent" which is a different thing. Diasporic communities are a grey area because how much or little a person engages with the diaspora is up to them, and they usually sort of become a third thing if they're a tight knit group.
https://youtu.be/4z60R30vxQA
Man, I can’t detect any cue card reading here like almost at all. I can’t remember an SNL skit within the last 5 - 10 years (other than their pre-shot skits of course) where the cast and guests weren’t clearly reading cue-card the entire sketch. I wonder why that is
I'm sure Kyle was slipping into an Irish accent at times 😄
Kyle’s accent in this is horrific
I only hear fat bastard.
i am the opposite i hear this sketch and the other 3 like it(and like a weekend update thing??) when ever i hear Fat Bastard or Shrek. this episode has another great Mike Myers moment when he does a Sprockets bit with "Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos". the winning video is a guy getting hit in the nuts so hard he pukes.
That and when he's fucking with Garth on Waynes World pretending to be "THE LEPRECHAUN!!!"
As an F1 fan, I really want those Jackie Stewart coasters.
Box of 6 or 12?
Kevin Nealon barely fit through the door
Kyle MacLachlan carrying his weight in this skit is just golden.
Definitely slipping into Irish there a few times
Oh aye, I left a rosebud in there for yah
I love you so much, IT HURTS!!
ATE HAAAIIIRTS!
Even funnier as Kyle drifts into an Irish accent
that episode was a classic. interestingly enough, that was the ep with sinead o'connor and the pope photo ripping incident. kyle is amazing in SPROCKETS. al franken's mobile remote from baghdad is hilarious. and BAD IDEA jeans is great too! RIP phil hartman.
This episode aired [in 1990](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694565/). Sinéad ripped up the photo of the Pope [in 1992](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-ripped-up-the-popes-photo-on-tv-snl).
you're right! i forgot she was on SNL twice. the song she ripped the pope on was a cover of WAR by bob marley.
NO FAIR! Bringing up your mother like that!
Can we get a new Austin Powers?
Watch The Pentaverate on Netflix. It’s basically 10 episodes of peak Myers.
I'd never heard of that. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'll give it a go.
This is exactly what Scotland is like (I’m Scottish and have lived here for my whole life)
[удалено]
Would be funny if they were speaking like they were from falkirk
That lass sayin' Scotland and Ireland be the same is lucky she dinnae get kilt!
I'm right in the primo age demographic for SNL during this period but I've never seen this before. Thanks!
We have three sizes: wee, not so wee, and friggin huge!
Ahh this is the SNL episode with lesser known performance of Sinead O'Connor.
Kyle MacLachlan has been in so much, but I'll always remember him as Cliff Vandercave from The Flintstones movie.
He’s always going to be Muad Dib for me.
God damn it I miss when SNL was actually funny
Was this written by Conan? clip from 1990, Conan worked there 1988 to 1991. Time lines up.
MIke Myers, based on his family.
Brilliant! And - SNL has sure gone downhill.
I wish Mike would make a new, hilarious movie, but it seems like all the great ones that used to be funny lose their ability over time (Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, etc.).
he had that recent thing on netflix.
Which is friggin’ hilarious.
Seems like some move onto different paths in their career too. Could be for any reason, but maybe they don’t find comedy as rewarding anymore or they do films with half the effort and double the pay check. I mean, I don’t blame a lot of comedians who go the latter route. They scraped and crawled to get where they are at through comedy and deserve to cash in.
this is the most unrefined version of his scottish accent ive heard. its like 40% wayne campbell.
My college's mascot is the Fighting Scots. I was a DJ on the college radio and I used this sound clip a ton.
That's funny stuff!
Anyone else notice how low the door handle is?
one of the best!
IIRC, this was on the season premiere 1990. Sinead O'Connor did "Last Day of Our Acquaintance" as her 2nd song and absolutely killed it. Best SNL musical performance I've ever seen.
So crazy to me that I remember this sketch so well that I knew what the door would sound like. It's not even a very good sketch.
That door music has been in my head this whole time, and I didn’t know it until now.
Sadly, Sean Connery never wrote his autobiography.
My mum used to say "it's no so wee as wee" when talking about something slightly bigger.
Why is Shrek talking to the Lisan al Gaib?
This has taken up space in my head for 30 years for no reason.
And this show lasted for 50 years?
Does a show existing require your approval?
You didn’t hear? All show approvals are routed through him first now.
Cue the "But SNL was so much better back in the day" crowd. Almost every time.
Fuck Kyle MacLachlan
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